The new leadership team of the Canberra Liberals has sought to dismiss a conservative versus moderate divide in the party.
Leader Leanne Castley and her deputy, Jeremy Hanson, have also ruled out attempting to push any changes to abortion and voluntary assisted dying laws in the territory saying the matters had been settled.
Ms Castley was elected to the role following a party room ballot on Thursday morning. She was a last-minute addition to the leadership contest, saying she decided to contest the afternoon before.
Elizabeth Lee was ousted from the job she had been expected to be elected with support from Ms Castley. Ms Lee is a moderate.
Following the October 19 election, debate has ensued about whether the Liberals should pursue a moderate or conservative agenda but Ms Castley said she was tired of this debate.
"I'm tired of this 'conservative, progressive'. We are Canberra Liberals," she said.
"We talk about broad church all of the time but we truly are. Menzies started the party with all of the anti-Labor groups. You bet your bottom dollar they would have had differing opinions and I'm here to bring that together so that's my goal."
Ms Castley voted for voluntary assisted dying and to expand abortion access in the last Assembly term but she faced an attack ad from Labor on her earlier views on abortion.
Labor was forced to retract the ad, which attributed the statement "women should definitely not be allowed abortions" after the ACT electoral commissioner ruled the ad to be inaccurate and misleading to a material extent.
When Ms Castley filled out the 2020 ACT SmartVote survey, which asked "Do you think that women should readily be able to obtain an abortion if they request one?", she responded, "Definitely no."
Mr Hanson voted against voluntary assisted dying. He was absent from the vote on expanding abortion access but in the same 2020 survey he responded "mostly yes".
He said the party needed to be focused on delivering better for Canberrans.
"I think we've got to be very focused on delivering for the people of Canberra, in our electorates, across the board, on the things that matter to them," Mr Hanson said.
"If we get sucked into the internal debates about progressiveness versus conservatism, the Liberal party is a big tent, there's room for everybody. At the end of the day, we're focused on delivering for the people of Canberra."
Former MLA Nicole Lawder, who retired at the election, said Ms Castley was more conservative than Ms Lee but said the member for Yerrabi had shifted her positions through the last term.
"When she first started in the Assembly she was more conservative, over time, I think she became much more pragmatic under Elizabeth Lee's guidance," Ms Lawder told ABC radio.
"I think that was some pragmatism just as Elizabeth helped to guide Leanne in that way, I fear that Jeremy might guide Leanne in other ways."
Ms Lawder said Mr Hanson had switched between being a moderate and conservative.
"Jeremy has swung back and forth in my time in the Assembly between conservative and moderate," she said.
"He has had more swings than a children's playground."
Former ACT chief minister Gary Humphries also told ABC radio he had "identified Leanne as not being a member of the hard right of the party until today". But he also said he did not have any evidence to suggest she had joined the hard right.
"I don't think someone from the right of the party, a conservative member of the party, is capable of winning an ACT election for the Liberal party," he said.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr also sought to paint the new Liberal leadership team as conservative.
"This leadership group represents a shift to the right for the Canberra Liberals, and highlights the division and conflict in their party room," he said.
